Blender Meshversions addon

kostex · February 24, 2017, 1:21pm

Hi,

I’ve released an addon called KTX_Meshversions.py

While editing/sculpting a mesh, you can press a button to save the current state (inside blender, not externally)
And switch between the different stages on the fly

Find it on:

Cheers,
Roel

A little gif-anim of functionality:

nBurn · February 24, 2017, 3:04pm

Looks like this post was mangled as well, so here’s what the author originally posted:

I’ve released an addon called KTX_Meshversions.py

While editing/sculpting a mesh, you can press a button to save the current state (inside blender, not externally) and switch between the different stages on the fly.

Find it on:
https://github.com/kostex/blenderscripts

https://media.giphy.com/media/l44QmoWyIge8Sg3U4/source.gif(image larger than 5 MB)

kostex_new · February 26, 2017, 5:35am

For those who want a youtube clip:

bls · February 28, 2017, 12:18am

Really nice!! Thanks for sharing!

Ascalon · March 6, 2017, 4:34pm

This is great. Can you explain what the pinning and autopinning does?

kostex_new · March 6, 2017, 11:04pm

Hi, Thanks!

I don’t know if you’re familiar with “FAKE-USER” functionality in Blender.
Normally if you save your .blend file, all images/meshes/materials NOT in USE will be discarded and not saved.
To prevent that, you can select ‘fake-user’ button (normally a little button with F inside) on materials/meshes etc.
My addon calls it Pinning but does the same… I thought it would be a better name for it than ‘Fake User’…

Regards,
Roel

kostex_new · April 18, 2017, 11:14am

KTX_Meshversions has been updated…

github.com

kostex/blenderscripts/blob/master/KTX_MeshVersions.py

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import bpy
import time

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It has been overhauled quite a bit… hope you like it… It should be self explanatory how and what…
If not… let me know

Roel

emboo2 · April 18, 2017, 2:24pm

Ah, hi Roel. I already liked this addon. I like it even more now. Great work. Thanks for sharing and cheers!

kostex_new · April 18, 2017, 2:37pm

Nice to hear! Thanks…
A lesser known fact is that when you select anything other than a mesh object (i.e. Camera) you’ll get the complete list of all meshes so you can pin/rename/remove meshes (not linked)
Call it Cleanup Mode…
Saving/Reopening file removes unlinked/unpinned meshes as well of course…

It’s a bit silly to select a non mesh to get in to ‘cleanup mode’ but I’ll think of something more obvious/user friendly…

kostex_new · April 25, 2017, 9:32am

This addon has now been added to the default available addons when you download blender (daily and future release versions)
No need to download it anymore.
How about that!

Jose_Sena · April 26, 2017, 9:21am

Congratz man! Really nice addon that will help a lot.

kostex_new · April 26, 2017, 9:36am

Thank you very much!

bnzs · February 21, 2019, 11:49pm

hi kostex
is there any chances to get 2.8 versions of your addon?

and you mentioned that in 2.79 your addons is “added to the default” - how they named there? or in what section they are?

txusmiCG · February 22, 2019, 12:29am

You can find the KTX Add-ons at the Testing tab:

bnzs · February 22, 2019, 12:43am

oh!
thank you.
sorry for silly question, i did not press “testing” button.
i hope your pic helps not only to me!
thx